repositorium

From repōnō (“I store, reserve; I place”) +‎ -tōrium (“pertaining to, serving for”).

repositōrium n (genitive repositōriī or repositōrī); second declension

1. something on which something else is placed
2. a tray for carrying dishes to the table
3. a repository or cabinet
4. (Medieval Latin) chest, treasure chest
5. (Medieval Latin) storehouse
6. (Medieval Latin) tomb, burial vault

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• → Middle French: repositoire
  • → French: repositoire
• → Portuguese: repositório
• → Spanish: repositorio
• → English: repository

• “repositorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “repositorium”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill
• repositorium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• repositorium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)